The tiny, defiant Nile island caught in the heart of Sudan’s war

For nearly two years, Al-Shubbak watched through ancient grey eyes as Tuti, the crescent-shaped island in the heart of the Sudanese capital she calls home, emptied of its inhabitants under a punishing paramilitary siege. She refused to leave. “I didn’t even move for the English when they colonised us,” she told AFP through a toothless […] The post The tiny, defiant Nile island caught in the heart of Sudan’s war appeared first on Digital Journal.